Reconstruction Review

Master Reconstruction! Quiz on key terms, policies, and amendments.

Move the events or terms into the correct category. The Categories are "Presidential Reconstruction or Congressional Reconstruction." Presidential Reconstruction Lincoln Johnson 10% Plan Leniency towards the South 10% of the voters took an oath of allegiance to the U.S., that state would be restored to the Union Ratify 13th Amendment Congressional Reconstruction Punish the SOuth want retribution and tougher conditions for the South’s readmission to the Union Wade Davis Bill required 50% of the voters of a southern state to swear their loyalty to the United States Ratify the 13th Amendment Radical Republicans Military Reconstruction Civil authorities in the territories were subject to military supervision Required new state constitutions, including black suffrage (15th Amendment) and ratification of the 13th and 14th Amendments authorized the military to enroll eligible black voters Restart Reconstruction in the 10 Southern states that refused to ratify the 14th Amendment Match the definition with the term 13th Amendment Abolishes Slavery 14th Amendment Establishes Citizenship and equal protection under the law 15th Amendment Establishes the right to vote for citizens for men Freedman's Bureau organization that helped feed, clothe, and provide medical care to former slaves. Black Codes State level laws designed to regulate newly freed slaves and an attempt by plantation owners to secure the labor supply lost as a result of the Thirteenth Amendment Compromise of 1877 Ends Reconstruction Tenure of Office Act Required Senate approval before the President could remove a federal official or military commander from a position in the government Reconstruction The South had to be rebuilt in three different ways: legally, politically, and socially. In your own words, explain the purpose of the Freedmen’s Bureau. "Sec. 3....All freedmen, free negroes, or mulattoes who do now and have herebefore lived and cohabited together as husband and wife shall be taken and held in law as legally married, and the issue shall be taken and held as legitimate for all purposes; that it shall not be lawful for any freedman, free negro, or mulatto to intermarry with any white person; nor for any white person to intermarry with any freedman, free negro, or mulatto; and any person who shall so intermarry, shall be deemed guilty of felony, and on conviction thereof shall be confined in the State penitentiary for life; and those shall be deemed freedmen, free negroes, and mulattoes who are of pure negro blood, and those descended from a negro to the third generation, inclusive, though one ancestor in each generation may have been a white person" -THE BLACK CODES OF MISSISSIPPI, 1865What was the purpose of enacting such laws in the south? to expand freedoms for newly freed slaves to limit the civil rights of black men and women as an attempt to undo the 13th amendment as a way of extending the rights of the 15th amendment What was the purpose of Black Codes in Southern states? Provide an example of a Black code written in the south. Which answer explains the best reason for Johnson's impeachment? Johnson ignored the Tenure of Office Act and fired Edward Stanton Congress claimed Johnson had brought disgrace to the nation Johnson favored Radical Reconstruction Johnson fired many Democrats from executive offices Which of these describes a goal of this notorious hate group? ensure Reconstruction ran smoothly assist the scalawags and carpetbaggers ensure that former slaves were given the right to vote restore southern democrats political power